Burt

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The World's Fastest Indian.
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Columbus Coffee Cafe at E Hayes, Invercargill, Southland
Burt Munro with speed trophies and ohv-coverted engine at his Invercargill bungalow. Legend!
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World fastest Indian, Bike it is. Burt Munro's Indian.
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INDIAN SCOUT 1920 WORLD FASTEST BIKE - Motoblog
INDIAN SCOUT 1920 WORLD FASTEST BIKE
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MotorcycleInsurance.com | The Impartial Motorcycle Insurance Buyers Resource and Motorcycle News
The "World's Fastest Indian" - Herbert James "Burt" Munro - NZ
H.J. "burt' Monroe - In 1962, at the age of 63, he made it to America with his Indian hoping to compete. He had not signed up, but was allowed to race through the co-operation of Rollie Free and Marty Dickerson. He set a world record for 850cc engines of 179mph. Xavi Hernandez, Coaching Tips, Salt Flats, Anthony Hopkins
Herbert James Munro
H.J. "burt' Monroe - In 1962, at the age of 63, he made it to America with his Indian hoping to compete. He had not signed up, but was allowed to race through the co-operation of Rollie Free and Marty Dickerson. He set a world record for 850cc engines of 179mph.
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Burt Munro & his '20 Scout, beginning stage of what will become the Munro Special.
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Bert Munro, worlds fastest Indian. 953 cc twin engine. 183.5 mph. Not bad for 1967. Record still stands in the class.
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Burt Munro - legendary. Legend does not describe what this man was.
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Burt's home/shed
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Herbert James Munro
In all, Burt Munro made ten trips to Bonneville. In 1967, at the age of 68, he set a land speed record of 185.586 mph—on a 47-year old machine with an original top speed of 55. To this day, no one has broken his record.
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Burt Munro 25 March 1899 - 6 January 1978 The man. The myth. The legend.
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Burt Munro World's Fastest Indian Bonneville Motorcycle
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INDIAN | THE GOLDEN AGE OF ICONS THE SCOUT, CHIEF, AND THE BIG CHIEF
New Zealander Burt Munro was a motorcycle land-speed record-holder of the 1960s. One of his dreams was to run his homebuilt 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle, dubbed the Munro Special, on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
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Burt Munro, 68-year-old native of New Zealand and now a resident in San Gabriel, California, poses in the 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle on August 4, 1966, which he plans to ride at the Bonneville Salt Flats in an attempt to break the world motorcycle speed record. Munro has spent five years designing and building an aluminum streamlined shell to house the cycle and himself. (AP Photo)